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Note that this does not effect all MIPS-based systems. The standard has included hardware floating point for many years now, it just seems some OEMs have neglected to upgrade or cut it for cost savings.

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Given the OEMs cited, would it be a reasonable estimation to suggest that the _majority_ of MIPS-based systems are affected?

Yeah, most consumer routers I've dealt with don't have a FPU. They're more likely to be dual core than have an FPU.

Consumers care about speed and don't care about security, so it's reasonable choice by vendors.

Consumers don't really care about speed, they care about checkboxes being checked. I'd be surprised if dual core really did anything for getting packets to and from the gateway interface any quicker. If anything I bet it makes it go slower with a naive implementation.

Consumers care about security if they’re hacked.

They aren't hacked yet when they make decision about buying the router, and anyway they cannot differentiate based on security promises marketed to them by vendors.

> they cannot differentiate based on security promises marketed to them by vendors

If $VENDOR has a reputation of being hacked, it might deter people from buying their products.

Rebranding is cheap these days.

Or maybe not.

https://www.pymnts.com/news/security-and-risk/2018/consumers...

It won't make a difference. Consumers don't care about security on their devices. That is why I quit frankly like things like Bricker bot. The internet is an ecosystem and people's devices should be bricked if they are having a negative effect due to blatant negligence by device manufacturers.

I hope a new round of Bricker bots continue killing devices that are unsupported, incredibly insecure devices. It is a public service (albeit a felony, don't get caught)

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